Acclaimed writer Zora Neale Hurston was passionate about documenting the everyday language and stories of people, from the Carribean to the American South. As part of California Shakespeare Theater’s production of Spunk (stories of the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston and adapted by George C. Wolfe) the Triangle Lab invites Oakland residents to join us in imagining the past, present, and future of their city through Imagine Oakland. “If Zora were here now, Oakland is the kind of place she’d want to write about. She believed in going home to tell the stories of your places,” says Spunk director Patricia McGregor. The Imagine Oakland project invites Oaklanders to tell stories of their places, sharing and experiencing communal reflections in a variety of arenas—online, in person, pictorial, verbal—to paint a complex portrait of this dynamic city.

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Hello Triangle Lab, I’m excited to contribute dance movement to the Spunk Production. Did you know I was a photographer that has a wonderful body of work of my neighborhood of East Oakland from the 1990′s. Please check out my website, click on ‘Photography, behind the lens’, then click on the link below that says, ‘The Block’. Let me know if there is a way to incorporate these photos in the Zora-Imagining Oakland part of the production. Thank you.